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Some Latex editors (like WinEdt) internally convert your umlauts to Lamport’s umlaut format, e.g. ä \”a Now, if your editor is not doing it automatically (like Vim 🙂 ), you basically have two possibilities Use Lamport’s umlaut format: \”{} Use a package that can handle umlauts and all characters having a code > 127 The … [Read more…]